Testimonials | Employment Practice & Law

Simpson Burgess Nash Accountants

Employment Practice and Law have advised us for a couple of years now on employment law, and have more than once calmly and expertly steered us through potentially difficult employment issues. I would warmly recommend their services and describe their top qualities as personable, expert and high Integrity.

A Furness

A Furness is a small, specialised engineering company based in Shaw and we manufacture suction cleaning equipment for industrial applications. There is no way that we could justify the cost of employing our own Personnel Manager or having our own HR department. We first contacted Employment Practice and Law on the advice of our insurance [...]

Fox Racing Europe Limited Testimonial

Fox Racing Europe Limited employs around forty staff and at this level we do not need our own HR expert, but we do occasionally need help in dealing with employee issues when they arise.

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Case Law – Holiday entitlement & Long Term sickness absence

In the past employers have sometimes tended to ignore staff on long term sickness absence in the belief that they are not costing the employer anything once SSP entitlement has been exhausted. However, this overlooks the fact that holiday entitlement continues to accrue so long as employment continues. We have recently come across two cases [...]

Apprentices

In November last year the government announced a new incentive to encourage small employers who do not normally do so to take on apprentices aged between 16 to 24. The scheme is aimed at employers with up to 50 staff, though can extend to those with up to 250. The form of the incentive is [...]

Government Proposals to make life simpler for Employers

There has been talk of increasing the qualifying period of service (to acquire unfair dismissal rights) from one year to two. In the fairly recent past the qualifying period has been as low as six months and as long as two years so this is not a new idea. The complicating factor that employers need [...]

Additional Paternity Leave

Additional Paternity Leave You may have read or heard of the change which came into effect last month allowing the partners of women who give birth after 3 April 2011 (or who adopt a child after that date) to take additional paternity leave if their partner has returned to work. Bear in mind that this [...]

Agency Workers Regulations 2010

These Regulations come into effect from 1 October this year & we know that some clients do make use of agency workers. We hope that you will find the highly condensed summary of the main feature below of use to you. Workers employed through an agency will have the same rights (in respect of employment [...]